PRIORITY SPECIES TO BE TAGGED IN SOUTH AFRICA
A. Sandy beach/soft bottom species Natal snoek/queen mackerel Baardman/bellman/tassel fish Pickhandle barracuda Cock grunter Prodigal son/cobia Dusky kob/daga salmon Sailfish Geelbek/Cape salmon Shortbilled spearfish Javelin grunter/mof grunter Springer/ladyfish/tenpounder Largespot pompano/wave garrick Striped marlin Natal stumpnose/yellowfin bream Swordfish/broadbill Oxeye tarpon Wahoo Perch/river bream Yellowfin tuna Silver kob (make sure of your ID) Yellowspotted kingfish Snapper kob Southern/African pompano C. Rocky shore fish species Spotted grunter Banded galjoen Squaretail kob (make sure of your ID) Blue emperor Tripletail Bronze/copper bream White steenbras/pignose grunter Catface/brown-spotted rockcod Cave bass B. Gamefish species Galjoen/damba Albacore/longfin tuna Lemonfish Bigeye kingfish Milkfish Black marlin Minstrel rubberlip Blacktip/yellowtail kingfish River snapper/rock salmon Bludger Speckled snapper Bludger Stone bream/stinker Blue marlin White musselcracker/brusher Blue/Ferdy kingfish Yellowbelly rockcod Bluefin kingfish Zebra/wildeperd Brassy/greenspot kingfish Cape/giant yellowtail D. Offshore reef fish species Couta/king mackerel Blue hottentot Elf/shad Dageraad Garrick/leervis Dusky rubberlip Giant kingfish Englishman Great barracuda German Greater amberjack/yellowtail Halfmoon rockcod Largemouth/talang queenfish Hottentot Longfin amberjack/tropical yellowtail Kaakap/green jobfish Longfin kingfish Lyretail/swallowtail rockcod
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Malabar rockcod Smooth hammerhead shark Moustache rockcod Soupfin shark/vaalhaai Poenskop/black musselcracker Spotted gully shark Potato bass Spotted ragged-tooth shark Red stumpnose/Miss Lucy St. Joseph shark Red/copper steenbras Striped catshark Roman Thintail thresher shark Sailfin rubberlip Tiger shark Scotsman Whitespotted smoothhound Seventy-four Zambezi/bull shark Soldier/santer * No lesser sandsharks Spadefish Tomato rockcod F. Rays Twinspot snapper No ray species are to be tagged White-barred rubberlip Wreckfish Yellowfin emperor SPECIES TO BE
E. Sharks TAGGED IN Blackspot shark MOZAMBIQUE Blackspot smoothhound (make sure of your ID) Amberjack Blacktip/blackfin shark Black marlin Broadnose sevengill cow shark Blue marlin Brown shyshark Couta/king mackerel Copper shark/bronze whaler Giant kingfish/trevally Dark shyshark Largemouth/talang queenfish Dusky/grey shark Natal snoek/queen mackerel Flapnose houndshark Sailfish Giant hammerhead shark Southern/African pompano Giant sandshark/guitarfish Striped marlin Grey reef shark Swordfish/broadbill Hardnose smoothhound Wahoo Java shark Yellowfin tuna Largecomb sawfish Leopard catshark Please note: The tagging of fish using Longnose blackfin/spinner shark ORI tags is specifically restricted to Milk shark South Africa and Mozambique. No fish Puffadder shyshark are to be tagged with ORI tags in Sandbar shark Angola, Namibia, Tanzania and/or Scalloped hammerhead shark Kenya Shortfin mako shark Sliteye shark
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